Estate / Collection: The Collection of Erica Jong and Ken Burrows

[ARION PRESS]
JOHN ASHBERY. Self-Portrait in a convex mirror. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1984. Copy 69 from an edition of 175 (one of 150 for sale). Brushed stainless steel film canister with a convex mirror mounted to the center of the upper cover. sheets 17 3/4 inches diameter (49 cm); 32 text pages; with 8 prints signed and numbered by the artists Richard Avedon, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R. B. Kitaj, and Larry Rivers; 33 1/2 rpm vinyl album of Ashbery, reading the poem with a foreword and essay by Helen Vendler as liner notes. A minor bump to the mount of the convex mirror, a few scratches etc., near fine overall.

An unusual artist book, the 13th of the Press, and the second livre de peintre produced by Andrew Hoyem in the years following the production of his edition of Moby-Dick. Printed on circular Twinrocker handmade paper, each of the eight prints is signed and numbered by the artist, and the book is additionally signed by Ashbery at the foreword and by Hoyem on the colophon. The prints were produced at a variety of studios, as detailed on the colophon.